In today’s ‘BHARAT BHAGYA VIDHATA’ column, Santosh Nair tells the story of Gita Karmakar, the nurse known across Jalpaiguri’s tea gardens as Polio Didimoni. For decades, she carried vaccines, maternal care and basic health services to communities first by bicycle and later by rickshaw.
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For over forty years, she provided healthcare in the tea gardens of Jalpaiguri, first by bicycle and then by rickshaw when pedalling became impossible.